Hand-stamp frame



Juh? 5,1923.

w. A. FORCE. JR

HAND STAMP FRAME Filed Sent. 1922 Patented June 5, 1923. I

UNITED STATES PAT ToFrIcE.

WILLIAM A. FORCE, JR.L OF KEW GARDENS, NEW YORK, ssrenon TO WM. A. some a COMPANY,'I1\TC., 1* NEW YORK, N. Y., A, oonronA'rron or new Yon'K.

HAND-STAMP FRAME,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. F oRcE,

Jr., a citizen of the United States, residing at Kew Gardens, Richmond Hill, in the 5 county of Queens and State of New York,

have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hand-Stamp Frames, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in hand stamps and particularly to those to be used in making imprints in bound volumes. It is my object to so construct the frames of such hand stamps that impressions can be made close to the left hand edge of the right hand page of bound books, as in entering dates in books of account.

Heretofore the frame and bottom plate of a hand stamp have prevented the printing mechanism reaching very close to the 2 left hand edge of-a right hand page of a bound book because of the thickness of the binding and the piling up of the left hand sheets and impressions had to be. made at some distance from said edge. p I

I have devised a special frame for such work which does not interfere With the use of the hand stamp in the regular manner and in the drawing have shown it applied to a hand stamp 'dater. Fig. 1 is a view of the front of my improved hand stamp; Fig. 2 a

and is shorter than the-run Width Ora 3,.

frame as shown'in F igs. 1 and 3. I

The free end of the bottom plate?) is braced to the leg of the frame by a strut 4:

so that thestamp frame Will not'lyz'i'eld when used. 3 v i The usual printing Wheels 5, operated by a plunger 6 and a knob 7 are mounted in the frameand an ink pad 8 is provided tosup- -i 50 It is apparent that the hand stamp can be usedtomake impressions in the-ordinary ply ink to the type Wheels.

places but when thele'ft or bound edge of a right hand pageof a bound book is tobe v p imprintedthe' stamp frame 'canbe, pushed up against thebound bookas shown in Fig.1

with the folds of the left hand sheetsenterQ ing the space between the short leg land the short bottom plate 3so that the impressioncan be made very close to the bound edge of the sheet toibe printed upon.

. I claim .1. A frame for hand frame being shorter than'th'e other, and a I stamps comprisinga substantially Urshaped frame adapted to contain printing mechanism, one legof said 5' bottom plate secured to the long leg of the frame andextending toward -theflishort' leg.

2. A frame for hand stamps comprising a I substantially U-shaped frame Ja-dapted' to contain printing mechanism, one leg o-fsaid frame being shorter than theother, a bottom plate securedto the long legrand extend ingtowards the short leg and a'strut extending from the bottomplate to ajframe '1e a In testimony signature.

Q'WILLIAMA whereof. I have tee my i 

